On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:28:59AM -0700, Bob Bowers wrote:
> In my community last week, someone gained access to a mail list with
> hundreds of subscribers by mimicking an email address authorized to post to
> the list (moderation bit set OFF).
The shortcoming of this approach to moderation is discussed in the FAQ:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.011.htp
> What resulted was that a worm of the W32Beagle variety was
> sent to many hundreds of subscribers.
Sorry to hear that. As others have mentioned, you might want to explore
setting up anti-virus filtering on your mail server and/or restrict the
types of attachments your mailing list(s) allow.
George
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